Fluid Dynamic Simulation and Optimization of Compact Heat Exchangers with Louver Fins

Abstract:

Every technological process developed since the beginning of humanity to the present day always involves some kind of energy use, either mechanical energy of the body or energy from burning fuel or the solar energy obtained from the sun. To manipulate and use that energy, the man always developed resources and equipment to allow it. Among the wide range of equipment, heat exchangers, designed to transfer heat from one fluid to another, will be analyzed in this work. To do this analysis, are used computational fluid dynamics (CFD) techniques to analyze the flow behavior of a compact heat exchanger, of tube and louvered fins type. After this step that aims to pull the parameters of efficiency, optimization features will be used to be able to propose a model for more efficient fin.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 798)
• Pages: 205-209
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.798.205
• Online since: October 2015
• Authors: Diego Amorim Caetano de Souza*, Lúben Cabezas Gómez, José Antônio da Silva
• Keywords: CFD, Compact Heat Exchanger, Louver Fins, Optimization

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